CFP: Australian Cinema (7/14/06; collection)

full name / name of organization:

Tanya Dalziell

contact email:

tanya.dalziell@uwa.edu.au

Call for Papers:Compulsory Screening: Australian Cinema and the Question of Borders

The Westerly Centre at the University of Western Australia invitesabstracts for an edited collection of essays addressing Australiancinematic experience in the light recent debates concerningimmigration, border security, refugees and the detention of asylumseekers. We are interested in how these events have helpedprecipitate a new understanding of nation and how this in turn mighthave affected cinematic expression, changed the kind of films thatare produced, or made earlier films ring with new resonances.

We invite contributions that elucidate the manner in which Australiancinema creates or is determined by borders or national boundaries andwhich address topics such as:

The immigrant experience in Australian cinemaFilms by migrants to AustraliaExpatriate film-makers and actorsProtectionist film policyInternal borders and divisionsCaptivity and detentionImagined communitiesHospitalityFences, borders, boundariesInternational film production in AustraliaSubcultures and ethnicityThe "whiteness" of White AustraliaCitizenship and the media